Tips, tricks, inside secrets, help, sources, items used on making the Cylon Centurion suit to wear. Tell us your story, how you came about collecting your parts to a Centurion, or if you own a complete Centurion costume.

First post. I am having a go at building an original Cylon helmet using the files from bazooka Jo. This is also the first time I have attempted a paper build. Here is what I have learnt so far.

Cutting.

It took us about three hours to cut out all the card using a craft knife. I found it easier to go through all the pieces of card cutting in one direction, then revolving the cards and cutting again in one direction. Took a long time to see results but feel this was quicker than cutting out each piece in turn.

Choice of Card.

I used 150 gram inkjet card from WH Smiths. Two problems I am finding with this card. It is too thin and also it is quite porous.

Glue

I work as a Jeweller and one of the things I pride myself on is not having any glue in my workshop. Furiously digging around old boxes I managed to find some mod podge from years ago. I started with this and it was a nightmare as it just soaked into the card and made bit of a mess. I managed to get from near by some elmers glue which worked well, but have some problems now where some pieces done with the Mod Podge are coming undone

Electronics

I only had 8 LEDs to hand but have done a quick test with an arduino to think about doing the larson scanner. I have only just started playing with an arduino and I amazed with the thing. I am hoping to come up with something that can do the scanner, sound effects and add some choose able voice commands

End of Build Part 1

Not as neat as I had hoped, But confident that as long as I have a good enough shape for when it comes to skimming it, I will be all right - its just going to mean more sanding - probably a lot!

It is also a tad too small, but I want to get end to end on the build first so I can understand all the issues I am going to face